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      06-05-2021, 02:16 PM   #1
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Ran reservoir dry during brake bleeding

I was just in the middle of a two person manual brake bleed and accidentally ran the reservoir dry. It was just one pump of the pedal that sucked in a bunch of air. Unfortunately this was on the last caliper I was bleeding. I filled it up and continued to bleed the brakes. A bunch of air came out through that front left caliper line and the pedal now feels normal. Do I need to do anything special such as bleed the ABS/DSC or the master cylinder separately? Or do I need to go back and rebleed all the calipers? Thanks!
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      06-08-2021, 04:23 PM   #2
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If the brake pedal feels fine, you are good.
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Depends on how well you will sleep at night?!?!

If it feels and brakes good, it's fine probably fine for the street

If you wanna make sure you have zero air in all the lines, you need to bleed every caliper again and do the DSC bleed via ISTA+ also.
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Thanks everyone, I ended up rebleeding the front passenger and front driver calipers just to be safe. No big bubbles came out after the initial huge bubble on the driver front. The brakes feel firm with no issues. I also tested ABS on a dirt road. I'm going to leave it as is for a few track days, then rebleed. I've already tested some high speed full force braking and everything seems fine. Is there anything that can go wrong mid track day? I won't be pushing it to the limit and it seems that if there were air in the master cylinder or lines, I should already notice diminished braking?

I would like to get ISTA+ to cycle the DSC next time, so I have the same question as Wanted_M. Where can I get ISTA+?
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Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you torrent file to get latest ISTA+
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